Alabamians will be deciding candidates in a handful of state and local races today, with a light turnout expected.

Polls for today's runoff election close at 7 p.m. and we will be here with live updates throughout the evening.

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4:15 p.m. On a day when Alabama politics was declared 'boring,' some items of interest have popped up early today. The runoff fireworks, at least so far, have more to do with weapons than candidates, however.

Voters in various places throughout the state brought their guns to polling places and, in at least one case, police were called to the scene. The issue of openly carrying firearms to election sites came to the forefront in weeks following the June 3 primary, when there were a handful of reports of voters in Alabama wearing holstered pistols to the polls.